The Houston International Jazz Festival, celebrating its 21st season, is rich in heritage, culture and sound. Kicking off Jazz Month in Houston, the August 5-7 Festival includes a kick-off party at House of Blues, followed by two days of evening concerts at Discovery Green, and the Mayor’s Scholarship Jazz Brunch. More than 10,000 music l [...]
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Houston International Jazz Festival A...
The Houston International Jazz Festival, celebrating its 21st season, is rich in heritage, culture and sound. Kicking off Jazz Month in Houston, the August 5-7 Festival includes a kick-off party at House of Blues, followed by two days of evening concerts at Discovery Green, and the Mayor’s Scholarship Jazz Brunch. More than 10,000 music l [...]
Seventh Tito Puente Latin Music Serie...
The Tito Puente Latin Music Series takes place in June, July, and August at outdoor locations across Boston. The seven-concert series is an infectious soundscape of salsa, timba, mambo, bolero, jazz, funk, soul, groove, and more. Performers include Berklee faculty, students, alumni, and world-renowned artists from Puerto Rico [...]
Back to the Roots!
Alain Londes
Canada Day was a delay of relaxation (relatively speaking) with a shorter list of performances on tap considering that this is a national holiday.
At lunchtime under a cloudless sky, the young Toronto group, Heavyweights Brass Band, entertained the gathering at the Outdoor Stage. With Chris Butcher on trombone, Jon Challoner on [...]
Robert Cray, Kurt Elling, Dee Dee Bri...
Alain Londes
On Monday evening, fans had a few hard choices to make among the headliners. At Koerner Hall, award-winning Dee Dee Bridgewater paid tribute to Lady Day.
Meanwhile at the Enwave Theatre, Kurt Elling took to the stage before an equally enthusiastic audience. The sold-out crowd knew who they were going to see as you could feel it [...]
Joshua Redman at The Copenhagen Jazz ...
“Copenhagen is a wonderful, wonderful place to get lost in, especially when the cause is jazz. Newcomers to the city, and to the seductive, seasoned Copenhagen Jazz Festival-up to its 32nd edition this summer-will find before them an almost dizzying density of a program, which extends to multiple venues all over the city.”
-Jazz [...]
Less Than Two Weeks Until Blues, Jazz...
The inaugural BluesFest London, which will see an array of stars from the worlds of jazz and blues descend on the capital, is now less than two weeks away. Jamie Cullum, BB King, Liza Minnelli, Dr John, Booker T, Ramsey Lewis, Blind Boys of Alabama, Georgie Fame, Buddy Greco and Al Jarreau are just some of the names confirmed to perform at th [...]
Monterey Jazz Festival Single Day Are...
On Sale June 17, 2011
Exclusive Arena Artists Include Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins, India.Arie & Idan Raichel; Huey Lewis & The News; Poncho Sanchez & his Latin Jazz Band
featuring Terence Blanchard; An Afternoon in Treme with Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Soul Rebels Brass Band, Kermit Ruffins and Glen David Andrews; Geri Alle [...]
Guggenheim-Winning Berklee Prof. Brin...
Inspired by J Dilla, Olivier Messiaen, Gauguin
Guggenheim-Winning Berklee Prof. Brings New Musical Language
to NYC’s Undead Jazzfest, June 23, 2011
Boston, MA, June 8, 2011 — Berklee College of Music’s MicroJam Ensemble, led by guitar professor David Fiuczynski (Meshell Ndegeocello,&nb [...]
Laila Biali heads on tour with Tracin...
Ottawa, Vancouver, Victoria, Montreal,
London, Halifax, Indian River, Markham
Tracing Light re-releases via Select Distribution
now available in physical stores across Canada
TORONTO – Singer and pianist Laila Biali (Lie-la Bee-ah-lee) heads on tour this month in Canada. After a concert last weekend in New York City (her newly adopted [...]
Bobby McFerrin Headlines 2011 DC Jazz...
Multiple Grammy Award Winner Performs with Howard University’s Afro Blue Reunion Choir at the Warner Theatre
June 7, 2011, Washington, D.C.— Adding to the remarkable array of celebrated artists who have been and are headline artists, the DC Jazz Festival (DCJF) proudly welcomes 10-time Grammy Award winner Bobby McFerrin to the nation’s capita [...]
THE 44TH EDITION OF THE FESTIVAL D’ÉT...
Quebec City, April 27, 2011 – For the 44th consecutive year, the capital will be grooving to the beat of the Festival d’été de Québec this July. The two Festival weekends already promise to be hot, and the news that Elton John and Metallica are playing the Festival is making waves across Canada and the U.S. and even as far away as Sweden.
“We [...]
Jazz Season and the Fine Art of Photo...
Bill King Editor.
I can honesty admit to an adrenaline rush when the lens sharp focuses, backgrounds flesh out in brilliant color, action on the bandstand reaches a climatic crescendo and I’m watching all of this from a half inch rectangle – my private world away from the surrounding crowd. Music swirls in all directions agitating and encoura [...]
